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Raworths Salon North: September
Get ready for a night of curiosity, creativity and unexpected connections.
This September, Raworths Salon North dives into the extraordinary inner workings of the human mind, exploring how our brains shape the way we imagine, believe and understand the world.
Anthropologist Deborah Hyde explores why humans are drawn to the supernatural, revealing what our fascination with ghosts, vampires and the unexplained can tell us about ourselves.
Neuroscientist Professor Adam Zeman opens up the remarkable world of imagination, uncovering how memory, daydreams and the mind’s eye shape our inner lives.
Psychologist Dr Madeleine Pownall uncovers the forgotten women who helped shape modern psychology, revealing how their pioneering ideas transformed our understanding of the human mind.
Each speaker takes the stage for around 20 minutes, followed by audience questions, with intervals to grab a drink, browse books from local bookseller Imagined Things, and continue the conversation.
With ideas in the air and a drink in hand, this is a night to discover something unexpected, meet fellow curious minds and leave seeing your own mind, and the minds of others, in a whole new light.
Hosted by producer and presenter Natasha Knight, Raworths Salon North is a celebration of bold thinking, brilliant storytelling and the joy of discovering ideas that stay with you.
Voted one of GQ magazine’s Top 100 Things to Do in the World.
Kindly sponsored by Raworths Solicitors.
Adam Zeman
Adam Zeman is a cognitive neurologist based in Edinburgh, with a particular interest in the sciences of imagery and imagination. He is the author of The Shape of Things Unseen – a new science of imagination (Bloomsbury, 2025). His previous books include Consciousness – a user’s guide, (Yale University Press, 2002) and A Portrait of the Brain Yale (University Press, 2008.) Between 2007-11 he was Chairman of the British Neuropsychiatry Association.
Deborah Hyde
Deborah Hyde wants to know why people believe in the supernatural, and uses psychology, cultural anthropology, history and folklore to shed light on this intractable strand of human nature. She regularly writes for periodicals and contributes material to book anthologies. She makes frequent TV appearances, being a regular guest on ‘Strange Evidence’ and ‘Mysteries at the Museum’, and has presented sceptical insights in two of BBC iPlayer’s most successful recent podcasts ‘Uncanny’ and ‘The Battersea Poltergeist’. She has most recently appeared on Sky’s popular show ‘Britain’s X’Files’. Deborah travels, nationally and internationally, to talk about ghosts, vampires, werewolves and whatever other malign entities may fascinate you. She regularly hosts events for Conway Hall, the oldest surviving freethought organisation in the world, and for Fortean London’s special annual events there. For ten years, Deborah was Editor-in-Chief of The Skeptic, is a fellow of The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a Patron of Humanists UK.
Dr Madeleine Pownall
Dr Madeleine Pownall, PhD, is a feminist social psychologist and Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the author of A Feminist Companion to Social Psychology (Open University Press, 2021) which has been described as ‘Extremely lively and super-smart’ that ‘pings with the vibrancy and creativity of feminist critique’ and has ‘made feminist inspiration, analysis, and activism easily accessible to everyone studying social psychology’. This book won a British Psychological Society Book of the Year Award in 2023. Dr Pownall regularly writes for popular audiences and is an internationally recognised feminist scholar.
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